Street-car.



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' APPLIOATIOE FILED KAR.24, 1908.

949,878. 7 Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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0. 0. BIRNEY.

STREET CAB.

APYLIOATIOH FILED [A314, 1908.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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CHARLES 0. BIRNEY, OF ST. LGUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THEPAY-AS-YOU-EN'IEE. CAR CORPORATION, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1. CHARLES O. BIRNEY, a citizen of the United States.and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certam new and usefulImprovements in Streettion containing a full, clear, and exact depanymgdrawings, forming a part hereof.

My Invention relates generally to street cars, and more particularly tothe car platform and entrance,- my ObjGCtbeing to construct a car or carplatform embodying What IS con nnonly known as the pay-as-you-enterprinciple, which arrangement necessitates the provision of entrance andexit doors between the platform and body of the car, thus permitting allof the passengers entering the car to pass through one door and to passthrough a second door when leaving the car, and the conductor beingadjacent the entrance door, where he has full View of the entireplatform, and is therefore in posit on to receive the fares ofpassengers entering the car and to properly signal the motorman or cardriver.

A further object of my invention is to provide a hinged exit door framewhich may due-tor, and which exit door frame and exit door are adaptedto be moved into position to closc the opening normall used as an exit,thus leaving the entire platform clear and unobstructed when occupied bythe mo torman or car driver.

Tothe above purposes, my inventionconslsts in certain novel features ofconstrdction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter morefully set forth, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in theaceompan ying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a horizontal section taken through the center of one end ofa car body and platform constructed in accordance with mr invention;Fig. 2 is an enlarged section talten approximately on the line 2-2 of F1g 1, showingthe lower portion of the exit door and its frame; Fig. 3 isan enlarged section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, showing the bearins for both ends of the movable post to which the exit door frameSpecification of Letters Yatent.

Application filed Karen 24, 1908.

STREET-CAR.

is hinged; Fig. 4 is a perspective of a filler plate which is utilizedin. closing the slots in the plates which receive the ends of themovable post; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross section. Cars, of whichthe following is a specifica- Referring by numerals to the accompanyingdrawings: 1 designates the car body, 2 scriptlon, reference being had tothe accom- Y the platform thereof, and arranged at the endof the bodyadjacentthe platform are the usual corner posts 3 and 4. Arranged at theouter corners of the platform are the vestibule posts 5 and 6, andarranged on the side of the platform between the posts 1 4 and 6 is a.step 7.

Positioned between the car body and the platform at a pointapproximatelyhalf way between the corner posts 3 and 4 is a center post Spendadjacent the corner post 3 is a post 9, to which is hinged an entrancedoor 10, of any suitable construction. the free edgev of which swingsagainst the center post-8.

Set into the edge of the platform 2, immediately adjacent the step 7 andextending approximately half way from the corner post 4 to the cornerpost 6 is a plate 11, provided witha longitudinall extending slot f 12,and normally positioned in this slot 12 be swung open when desired bythe con-f is a filler plate 13, in which is formed an aperture 14, whichpermits the plate to be engaged and removed when desired.

Positioned in the under side of the plat- 1 form hood innuediately abovethe plate 11 t is a corresponding slotted plate 15, and re moi ablypositioned in the slot therein is a filler plate 16. An exit door post17, preferably in the form of a hear snetal tube, is provided on itsend; with pins 18 which engage in the plates 11 and 15.

Hin ed in any suitable 'manncr to the post 1 is an exit door frame 19,and fixed to the bottom thereof is a metallic threshold plate 20 beneathwhich is po itioned and held for rotation a roller 21, which bearsdirectly upon the platform 2. The door frame 19 is of such width as thatwhen the post 17 occupies the outer ends of the slots in the plates 11and 15, the free side of said frame bears against the center post 8, ahdthus entrance and exit assage-ways are formed on the platform eadinginto and from the interior of the car. An exit door 22 is connected bymeans of hinges 23 to the door frame 19, and the said exit door heing ofsuch width as that when it is swung out of the door frame its free edgecloses against the corner post -l, and thus said exit door, togetherwith the entrance door 10, closes the openings between the car body andplatform.

When a car of my improved construction is in use, the various parts arein the positions shown in Fig. 1, and the conductor being immediatelyadjacent the center post 8, where he is in position to receive the faresof the entering passengers, and where he has full view of the platformand step, and can therefore readily see the movements of the passengers,and thereby govern the signals to the motorman or car driver stationedon the opposite platform. The passengers entering the car pass betweenthe osts 6 and 17, and after paying fare to t e conductor enter the carby swinging the entrance door 10 inward, as shown by dotted lines inFig. 1. The passengers leaving the car engage and swing the exit door 22outward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, into position in the doorframe 19, and said passengers now pass out through the space. betweenthe osts 4 and 17.

Should't 1e conductor stationed on the car platform desire to assist apassenger to alight, the entire door frame 19 and the door 22 in saidframe can be swung outward, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, thuspermitting the" conductor to pass into the exit passage-way traversed bythe passengers in leaving the car. \Vhen the entire door frame is thusswung open or closed, the roller 21 rides upon the car platform, thusmakin the movement of said door frame free anc reducing the frictionbetween the platform and said door frame, which latter is ofconsiderable weight.

iVhen it is desired to move the post 17 into position immediatelyadjacent the corner post 4, as is necessary when the car platform istransformed so as to be occupied bv the motorman or car driver, thefiller plates 1 and 16 are removed from the slotted plates 11 and 15,and the post 17 is unwed into a position immediately adjacent the cornerpost 4, during which movement the pins 18 travel through the slots insaid plates 11 and 15, and after this operation has been completed thefiller plates are reseated in the slots in the plates 11 and 15, andthus the entire platform is free and unobstructed, and that portion ofthe car between the platform and car body is entirely closed.

A car of my improved construction is comparatively simple, providesmeans whereby passengers entering and leaving the car (pass throughseparate doors, thereby avoi' ing confusion and crowdin and provision ismade whereby the con uctor remains at a fixed station, where he mayreadily receive the fares of all the passengers entering the car, andwhere he is in position to see the movements of the passengers gettingon and off the car, and can therefore properly signal the motorman orcar driver without danger of inju to passengers in the act of getting onor o the car.

I claim:

l. The combination with a street. car of a post arranged. on the carplatform adjacent-the step, a door frame hinged to said post, and anexit door hinged in the frame and adapted to normally close theexitopening in the end of the car.

2. The combination with a street car of a movable post arranged on thecar platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to themovable post,and an exit door hinged to the door frame and normally closing theexit-opening at the end of the car.

3. The combination with a street car of a movable post arranged on thecar platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged to the movable post,a roller arranged on the bottom of the doorframe, and an exit doorhinged to the door frame and normally clos ing the exit opening at theend of the-car. 4. The combination with a street car of a center postarranged between the corner posts of the car body, a. movable postarranged err' the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged tothe movable post, the free edge of which frame closes against the".enter post, and an exit door hinged to the door frame and normallyclosing the exit opening between the center post and one of the cornerposts of the car body. 5. The combination with a. street car of a centerost arranged between the corner posts of the car body, a movable postarranged on the car platform adjacent the step, a door frame hinged tothe movable post, the free edge of which frame closes against the centerpost, a roller arranged on the bottom of the door frame, and an exitdoorhinged to the door frame and normally closing the exit opening betweenthe center postand one of the corner posts of the car body.

6. The con1bination with a street car of a movable post arranged on thecar platform adjacent the step, means whereby said post is held in afixed position, a doorframe inged to the movable post, and an exit doorhinged to the frame and normally closing the exit opening, in the end ofthe car.

7. The combination with a street car of a movable pest arranged on thecar platform odjacent the step, meansovhereby said i In testimonywhereof, I have signed my gosh is held in a fixed position, a door nameto th1s specification, in presence of two ame hinged to the movablepost, a roller 'suBscribmg Witnesses.

arranged on the bottom of the door frame, 3 CHARLES O. BIRNEY. 5 and anexit door hinged to the frame and Witnesses:

normally closing the exit opening in the M. P. SMITH,

end of the car. E. L. WALLACE.

